I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.